The Irvine City Council decided at a special meeting Monday to ask a Superior Court judge to intervene after the former councilman ignored a subpoena to appear for a deposition as part of the ongoing investigation into the Great Park

The Orange County government's performance auditor is publicly calling out District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and his contractor for delays in a regularly-scheduled audit that the DA didn’t want Cheng to do.

When Mayor Miguel Pulido paid John P. Vega Consulting for campaign phone bank services, the business didn’t officially exist. And the owner, John P. Vega, had been released from state prison only months before.